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[-] sus@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Taleb's mind just isn't antifragile enough. Or maybe too antifragile. Idk I didn't read his book

[-] Juice@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I read a couple Teleb books about 15 years ago, they're very funny. You go in thinking they're these books about systematic collapse, but mostly its just about how he's so smart he gets to be friends with Benoit Mandelbrot.

The theme of Anti-Fragile is "don't be a sucker" which is really good advice tbh, but if you're not a sucker you wouldnt have fallen for the apocalyptic framing of a book about how he's so smart because he read some entry-level philosophy at some point, while Paul Krugman is a fucking moron and the nobel prize for economics is a joke

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